#georgewbush — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/people/228656/ Tech CEOs call for AI regulation. Trump and Congress are not rushing to act #AmyKlobuchar #BarackObama #BernieSanders #Business #CharlesSchumer #ChuckSchumer #DarioAmodei #DonBeyer #DonaldTrump #Elections #ElonMusk #GeorgeWBush #JDVance #JohnFKennedy #JohnThune #JonOssoff #JoshHawley #MarkWarner #MaxStier #MikeJohnson #Politics #RahmEmanuel #RickScott #SamAltman #Technology #WashingtonNews

Sept. 11 transformed America by expanding presidential power, eroding privacy, civil liberties and reshaping national security and in ways that still define the country today. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/09/14/world/broken-world-sept-11-created/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #911 #donaldtrump #middleeast #us #iraq #arabspring #syria #egypt #georgewbush #guantanamobay #barackobama #iran #supremecourt #osamabinladen #terrorism #alqaida

Sept. 11 transformed America by expanding presidential power, eroding privacy, civil liberties and reshaping national security and in ways that still define the country today. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/09/14/world/broken-world-sept-11-created/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #911 #donaldtrump #middleeast #us #iraq #arabspring #syria #egypt #georgewbush #guantanamobay #barackobama #iran #supremecourt #osamabinladen #terrorism #alqaida

Sept. 11 transformed America by expanding presidential power, eroding privacy, civil liberties and reshaping national security and in ways that still define the country today. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/09/14/world/broken-world-sept-11-created/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #911 #donaldtrump #middleeast #us #iraq #arabspring #syria #egypt #georgewbush #guantanamobay #barackobama #iran #supremecourt #osamabinladen #terrorism #alqaida

Sept. 11 transformed America by expanding presidential power, eroding privacy, civil liberties and reshaping national security and in ways that still define the country today. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/09/14/world/broken-world-sept-11-created/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #911 #donaldtrump #middleeast #us #iraq #arabspring #syria #egypt #georgewbush #guantanamobay #barackobama #iran #supremecourt #osamabinladen #terrorism #alqaida

Context: 2001 New York Baseball, Bush first pitch toss in NYC two weeks after 9.11.2001. Interviews, what powerful people were thinking, including Barbara Lee, Baseball players, White House including Bush, and anthrax fears. Very interesting quotation (interview) essay structure by Garrett Graff.
#911Anniversary #25years #GeorgeWBush #baseball #waronterror

https://www.europesays.com/people/225780/ Pete Hegseth can’t read the room in 9/11 Pentagon tribute … to Trump #9/11Attacks #AmericanAirlines #CondoleezzaRice #DefenseSecretary #DonaldTrump #GeorgeWBush #Iran #pentagon #PeteHegseth #Sept11 #WorldTradeCenter

https://www.europesays.com/people/225518/ Pete Hegseth can’t read the room in 9/11 Pentagon tribute … to Trump #9/11Attacks #AmericanAirlines #CondoleezzaRice #DefenseSecretary #DonaldTrump #GeorgeWBush #Iran #pentagon #PeteHegseth #Sept11 #WorldTradeCenter

https://www.europesays.com/no/352164/ CIA-dokumenter avslører advarsel før 11. september #911 #BillClinton #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #GeorgeWBush #Headlines #Hovedoppslag #LatestNews #LatestNews #MainNews #MainNews #NewYork #News #NO #Norge #Norway #Nyheter #Overskrifter #terror #TopStories #TopStories #USA #Utenriks

9/11: The "Official Story" Is a Fairy Tale for Adults

Two planes. Three buildings. A trillion-dollar accounting error. A passport that survived a fireball. If you believe the government's version, you'll believe anything.

Three Towers, Two Planes, One Impossible Physics Problem

Let's start with the simplest fact that no one in the mainstream media wants to explain: on September 11, 2001, two planes hit two buildings, but three buildings fell down.

World Trade Center Building 7 was a 47-story skyscraper that was not hit by any plane. It suffered only minor fires and superficial damage. Yet at 5:20 PM that afternoon, it collapsed into its own footprint at virtually free-fall speed — the signature of a controlled demolition.

Building 7 housed the offices of the Secret Service, the CIA, and — most crucially — the US Securities and Exchange Commission. All the files for approximately 3,000 to 4,000 SEC cases, including the Enron scandal, were destroyed in that collapse.

Enron. The biggest corporate fraud in American history. The investigation files. Gone.

And what did the 9/11 Commission Report say about Building 7? Nothing. Not a single word.

If that doesn't make you pause, nothing will.

The "Pull It" Moment

Larry Silverstein, the leaseholder of the World Trade Center complex, gave an interview for a PBS documentary in which he described the decision-making on September 11. His words: "I remember getting a call from the fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, 'We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.' And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse."

"Pull it."

In demolition industry terminology, "pull" means to bring a building down with explosives. Silverstein's spokesman later claimed he meant "pull the firefighters out" — but you don't "pull" firefighters. You pull buildings. And Building 7 came down in a textbook controlled demolition.

Six Weeks Before

Here's a detail that should have been on the front page of every newspaper: Larry Silverstein signed the lease for the World Trade Center just six weeks before 9/11.

Six weeks.

And what did he do almost immediately after signing that lease? He negotiated a massive insurance policy — $3.55 billion in coverage, with a clause specifically covering terrorism.

The previous insurance on the property was roughly half that amount. Silverstein reportedly insisted on the terrorism clause. And after the attacks, he went to court arguing that because two planes hit two towers, he should be paid twice — nearly $7 billion.

A man leases a property six weeks before its destruction, quadruples the insurance, adds terrorism coverage, and then argues for a double payout. In any other context, investigators would call that a motive.

The Mastermind in a Cave

The official story tells us that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged "mastermind" of 9/11, coordinated the entire operation from a cave in Afghanistan using a phone and a laptop.

A man on dialysis. In a cave. In one of the most remote regions on Earth. Directing the most sophisticated terrorist attack in history, coordinating 19 hijackers across the United States, managing flight schools, finances, and logistics — all from a cave.

Meanwhile, the hijackers allegedly brought down the World Trade Center with box cutters. Utility knives. Against trained pilots and crew. And they supposedly overpowered the passengers on four separate flights.

If you believe that, you also believe that a passport belonging to one of the hijackers — Satam al-Suqami — survived the fireball explosion that supposedly cremated him, flew out of his pocket, and landed intact on the street blocks away, ready to be found by investigators.

The bodies of hundreds of victims were never recovered. But the hijacker's passport? Pristine.

The President Who Knew

On the morning of September 11, President George W. Bush was at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, reading "The Pet Goat" to a group of second-graders.

He was informed that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. He stayed in the classroom for another five to seven minutes.

Later, in December 2001 and again in January 2002, Bush claimed he saw the first plane hit the tower on television before entering the classroom. "I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower," he said.

But here's the problem: no cameras were trained on the World Trade Center at the time of the first impact. No live footage of the first plane hitting the North Tower existed until much later. The first crash was not broadcast live.

So how did Bush see it?

Either he was lying, or he had prior knowledge. His spokesman later called it a "mistaken recollection".

A mistaken recollection about the most significant event of his presidency. Right.

The Pentagon: The Day Before and the Day Of

On September 10, 2001 — one day before the attacks — Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave a speech at the Pentagon. In that speech, he admitted something extraordinary:

"According to some estimates, we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions."

$2.3 trillion. Missing. Unaccounted for. The day before the Pentagon was hit.

The following day, a plane — or something — struck the Pentagon. And the very section of the building that was hit? The area where the accounting and financial records were kept.

The missing money? The records that might have explained it? Destroyed.

Less than 48 hours after Rumsfeld admitted the Pentagon couldn't account for trillions, the evidence went up in flames. If you're a conspiracy theorist, that's not a coincidence. That's a cover-up.

No Plane, No Bodies, No Parts

The Pentagon is one of the most secure buildings on Earth. Cameras cover every inch of it. Multiple security cameras recorded the approach.

Not a single frame showing the plane hitting the Pentagon was released to the public for years. When footage was finally released in 2006, it was grainy, low-resolution, and showed nothing clearly identifiable as a Boeing 757.

The hole in the Pentagon was approximately five meters across — far too small for a 757 with a wingspan of nearly 38 meters. Conspiracy theorists pointed out that the lawn was clean after the attack, with no wing debris, no tail section, no engines.

At most plane crashes around the world, you find bodies, seats, luggage, engine parts, landing gear — debris scattered across a wide area. At the Pentagon, the official story claims the plane completely disintegrated on impact, vaporized by the heat of the explosion.

But if the plane vaporized, why were there no bodies? Why no plane parts? Why did witnesses describe a missile or a military aircraft?

And why did the government fight so hard to keep the footage secret?

The Dancing Israelis

On the morning of September 11, five men were arrested in Liberty State Park, New Jersey. They had been videotaping the attacks — and witnesses reported they were celebrating, "dancing" as the towers burned.

They worked for a company called Urban Moving Systems, which the FBI later determined was a Mossad front.

They were detained, interrogated, and eventually deported. The official explanation? They were just "celebrating" — nothing to see here.

But if five men with cameras and a Mossad cover company were positioned to film the attacks before they happened, that suggests foreknowledge. And foreknowledge suggests involvement.

The Passport and the Phone Call

We already mentioned the hijacker passport that survived the fireball. But let's add another detail.

The alleged hijackers were supposedly led by a man on dialysis in a cave who used a satellite phone and a laptop to coordinate everything.

But satellite phones in Afghanistan in 2001? Laptops in caves? The logistics are absurd. The 9/11 Commission itself found that the attacks were planned and executed by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — a man who was later captured and waterboarded 183 times. The "intelligence" used to justify the Iraq War came from torture. And the CIA destroyed the tapes of those interrogations.

The evidence is gone. The "mastermind" was tortured into confession. And the American public was told to accept it.

What the 9/11 Commission Didn't Investigate

The 9/11 Commission was delayed, underfunded, and based on testimony extracted from torture.

It didn't mention Building 7. It didn't investigate who funded the attacks. It didn't examine Operation Able Danger, the military intelligence program that allegedly identified some of the hijackers before 9/11. It didn't look at the war games being conducted on the morning of 9/11 — simulations of hijacked planes flying into buildings — that were running at the exact same time as the real attacks.

President Bush and Vice President Cheney testified in secret, off the record, not under oath, and behind closed doors.

What were they hiding?

The Pattern

Two planes. Three buildings. A leaseholder with terrorism insurance. A president who "saw" a crash that wasn't broadcast. A Pentagon with $2.3 trillion missing. No plane footage. No bodies. No parts. A passport that survived a fireball. Five Israelis filming and celebrating. A commission that investigated nothing.

You don't have to have all the answers to know that the official story doesn't add up. You just have to be willing to look at the facts and ask the question that the mainstream media refuses to ask:

Who benefited?

The military-industrial complex got a blank check for endless war. The surveillance state got the PATRIOT Act. The financial crimes of Enron and others got buried in the rubble of Building 7. And the American people got a story — a story that falls apart the moment you examine it.

Two planes did not bring down three towers.

Wake up.

Republicans Break the Economy, Democrats Fix It—Why Does America Keep Forgetting?

Democrats repeatedly inherit Republican economic wreckage. History, GDP data, jobs, and inflation expose the myth that Republicans manage the economy better.

Die Ausbreitung der Überwachung

https://kaffeeringe.de/2026/03/30/die-ausbreitung-der-ueberwachung/

From 2014... How #USEvangelicals Fueled the Rise of #Russia’s ‘#ProFamily’ Right

An alliance is born between #AntiGay, #AntiAbortion American groups and the #RussianOrthodoxChurch

by Adam Federman, January 7, 2014

Long excerpt [pay attention to the names named!] :

"This rising #Russian social #conservative movement frequently invokes the argument that #ProGay and #WomensRights groups are puppets of the West, which is seeking to undermine Russian autonomy and interfere in the country’s internal affairs. At an annual meeting of journalists and academics presided over by Vladimir #Putin in Valdai in September, the Russian president said that European countries had strayed from their roots by legalizing #GayMarriage. He urged Russians to embrace the conservative values of the #OrthodoxChurch and other traditional religions and issued a warning to those who might want to challenge those values. 'Russia’s sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity are unconditional—these are red lines no one is allowed to cross,' he declared.

"Several #LGBT rights groups have been targeted under another new law, which requires any nongovernmental organization that receives funding from other countries for political activities to register as a '#ForeignAgent.' Failure to do so can lead to investigations, legal action or crippling fines. The implication is that these groups are not only agents of the West but also out of touch with everyday Russians.

"The irony is that it is the new conservative vanguard—anti-gay, anti-abortion and pro–'#TraditionalFamily'—that has most successfully cultivated the West’s financial and institutional support. Scott Lively, an extreme anti-gay campaigner, all but took credit for the new law, calling it 'one of the proudest achievements of my career,' while #BrianBrown, president of the #NationalOrganizationForMarriage, visited Moscow with much fanfare just before the new law was passed. But the language of Russia’s anti-gay and anti-abortion movement seems to borrow most heavily from mainstream evangelicals and conservative politicians in the United States and Europe. Referring to the anti-abortion bill passed in 2011, Lyubov Erofeeva, executive director of the Russian Association for Population and Development, a women’s advocacy group, said: 'It was 100 percent clear that everything was copied from the experience of American #fundamentalists and conservative circles of several European countries where #abortion is forbidden or restricted severely.'

"The church’s close ties with American evangelicals reflect a shift in policy. For much of the post-Soviet period, the Russian Orthodox Church held evangelical denominations at arm’s length, fearing that they would compete for influence within Russia. But as the church has consolidated its power, it has come to view the evangelical community as a partner. 'The #ROC realizes that the evangelical denominations are not their opponents but rather their allies in the relations between the church and the secular population,' says Olga Kazmina, a professor of ethnology at Moscow State University.

" 'It’s a re-envisioned paradigm,' says Father #LeonidKishkovsky, head of the Orthodox Church in America’s Department of External Affairs. In many ways, it makes sense, he adds: both religious groups share an ideological commitment and have grown disillusioned with the way mainline churches have dealt with issues like gay marriage and abortion. 'But what I’m quite nervous about is the ideological core which actually motivates both sides,' Kishkovsky says. 'Where is the motivating force? Is it in faith? Or is it in political ideology?'

"The Russian Orthodox Church’s chief emissary to the US evangelical community is #HilarionAlfeyev, a high-ranking bishop and chairman of the powerful Department of External Church Relations (the position previously held by #PatriarchKirill). In February 2011, the 47-year-old Alfeyev traveled to Washington, where he met with prominent evangelical and 'pro-family' leaders; and then to Dallas, where he addressed thousands of members of the Highland Park Presbyterian Church and emphasized the importance of 'creat[ing] new alliances,' especially around issues of marriage, abortion and the family. Alfeyev also visited the #DallasTheologicalSeminary and had an hour-long meeting with #GeorgeWBush.

"The trip to Dallas grew out of an increasingly close friendship between church leaders and a small circle of American and European Christian businessmen in Moscow. Alfeyev’s visit was organized by #JerryFullinwider, an #OilExecutive and elder of the #HighlandParkChurch who, until recently, had business interests in Russia. Fullinwider, a member of the #KochBrothers’ circle of major donors—those who have given more than $1 million to #Koch-related causes—met Alfeyev through his friend Bob Foresman, head of #Barclays Capital in Russia. This select group of businessmen has unusual access to Alfeyev. In an interview for this article, Fullinwider described having dinner at Alfeyev’s private residence on a recent trip to Moscow. 'He’s a real busy guy,' says Fullinwider. 'He’s very, very hard to get in touch with unless you have a special number and you know the main guy who handles him, who’s a good friend of mine.'

"Alfeyev’s first trip to the United States paved the way for others, and in October 2012 he delivered a lecture at Villanova University, where he received an honorary degree and paid a visit to the Milwaukee-based #LyndeAndHarryBradleyFoundation. One of the largest donor organizations of its kind in the United States, the #BradleyFoundation, with more than $600 million in assets, is known for its contributions to US conservative groups like the #HeritageFoundation and the #HeartlandInstitute. But its charity isn’t limited to home: over the last four years, the foundation has given $750,000 to the St. Gregory the Theologian Charity Foundation in Moscow, a new educational and cultural initiative founded in 2009 by Alfeyev, Russian #billionaire and pharmaceutical magnate #VadimYakunin, and #LeonidSevastianov, a 35-year-old international business consultant and head of Stratinvest.ru, a consulting and public relations firm. In 2009, through Alfeyev’s charity, the Bradley Foundation donated $150,000 to support the 'Day of the Family,' a recently created Russian holiday honoring faith and fidelity. The annual event has been championed by #SvetlanaMedvedeva, wife of Prime Minister #DmitriMedvedev, a staunch #AntiAbortion advocate.

“We want to promote the idea of the unity between the West and Russia on the basis of common Christian roots,” Sevastianov told Inside the Vatican magazine in 2009. “We believe in this alliance among traditional Christian countries…and we believe that, with a united voice, we can be a strong force against the radical secular world which has become dominant in our societies.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/how-us-evangelicals-fueled-rise-russias-pro-family-right/

#TradFamily #TradWives #TrumpIsARussianAsset #AntiWoke #ChristoFacists #ChristoFascism #evangelicals #RabidRight #MAGADeathCult #BigOil #CorporateColonialism #Billionaires

#MarkLevin promoted a misleading attack from #Trump on his Fox "news" colleague, #KarlRove, on Wednesday after Rove’s appearance on #Fox&Friends earlier that day caused Trump to lash out at the architect of former President #GeorgeW.Bush ’s two #WhiteHouse campaigns www.mediaite.com/media/news/m...

Mark Levin Promotes Misleading...

« Si on veut voir ce qui se passe, il faut être en première ligne. »

« Les flics détestent être pris à revers, iels ne peuvent pas se permettre d'être encerclé·es. »

https://crimethinc.com/2025/01/28/cest-plus-sur-en-premiere-ligne-prendre-loffensive-contre-la-tyrannie

#peur #premièreLigne #luttes #Bush #GeorgeWBush #GuerreDIrak #camarades #collectifs #gestionDesFoules #anarchistes #antifascistes #territoire #encerclement #responsabilité #gazLacrymogène #pouvoirDeSoi #manifestations #protestations #manifester #protester #manif

I’m more proud to be a neoconservative now than I was in the loftiest days of the second Bush administration. A little lonelier, sure, but as strange as it may sound, I’m hoping I’m hoping #ElonMusk and his #AmericaParty can bring America back to the party. https://ofb.biz/sa1333

#Neoconservatism #MAGA #DonaldTrump #GeorgeWBush

So, whenever I think about #Stuxnet, I recall how a journalist in Japan, #YoichiShimatsu, wrote about possible #Israeli Stuxnet sabotage at #Fukushima -- which caused some critical systems to fail. Many derided Shimatsu's theories as "Conspiracy Theories," but there may be a grain of truth in them -- especially given what happened with the recent #Malware attack on pagers in #Lebanon...

Journalist Accuses Israel of Fukushima Sabotage

October 14, 2011

By Richard Walker

"A leading Japanese journalist recently made two incredible claims about the Fukushima power plant that suffered a nuclear meltdown in March 2011, sending shockwaves around the world. First, the former editor of a national newspaper in Japan says the U.S. and Israel knew Fukushima had #weaponsgrade #uranium and #plutonium that were exposed to the atmosphere after a massive tsunami wave hit the reactor. Second, he contends that Israeli intelligence sabotaged the reactor in retaliation for Japan’s support of an independent #Palestinian state.

"According to Yoichi Shimatsu, a former editor of Japan Times Weekly, these nuclear materials were shipped to the plant in 2007 on the orders of Dick #Cheney and #GeorgeWBush, with the connivance of Israeli Prime Minister #EhudOlmert. The shipment was in the form of warhead cores secretly removed from the U.S. nuclear warheads facility BWXT #Plantex near Amarillo, Texas. While acting as the middleman, Israel transported warheads from the port of Houston, and in the process kept the best ones while giving the Japanese older warhead cores that had to be further enriched at Fukushima.

"Shimatsu credits retired #CIA agent and mercenary Roland #VincentCarnaby with learning the warheads were being transported from Houston. In a strange twist, Carnaby was mysteriously shot dead less than a year later by Houston police at a traffic stop. He was shot once in the back and once in the chest. He did not have a weapon in his hands.

"Intelligence sources said he had been tracking a #Mossad unit that was smuggling U.S. plutonium out of Houston docks for an Israeli nuclear reactor.

"In an even more explosive charge, the journalist says that 20 minutes before the Fukushima plant’s nuclear meltdown, Israel was so upset with Japanese support for a Palestinian declaration of statehood that it double-crossed Japan by unleashing the Stuxnet virus on the plant’s computers. The virus hampered the shutdown, leading to fallout from a section of the plant housing uranium and plutonium retrieved from the warheads supplied in 2007.

"While it is impossible to verify some of Shimatsu’s claims, there was a massive cover-up at the time of the Fukushima disaster in March [TRUE!!!]. Explosions at the site were immediately downplayed. While it was subsequently reported that three reactors suffered meltdowns, Japanese authorities tried to rate the disaster as a Level 4 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale, although outside experts declared it a 7, which is the highest level.

"Something worth noting is how in 2009, two years after Shimatsu says the warheads were secretly moved to Japan, the International Atomic Energy Agency (#IAEA) issued a veiled warning to Japan not to abandon its #AntiNuclear weapons policy.

"The IAEA had to know, however, that Japan has long retained the potential to build #NuclearWeapons. That was made clear as far back as 1996 when a leaked Ministry of Foreign Affairs document exposed how Japan had been promoting a dual strategy in respect to nuclear weapons since the mid-1960s. It would often publicly profess a non-nuclear policy while maintaining the ability to build a nuclear arsenal. The Liberal Democratic Party, which has dominated Japanese politics, has always said there is no constitutional impediment to nukes.

"A factor that undoubtedly would have encouraged the Bush-Cheney White House to provide Japan with the means to secretly build nukes was the growing power of China. Cheney and Bush sought to arm Japan and India with nuclear weapons as a means of curbing China."

Read more:
https://americanfreepress.net/japanese-journalist-accuses-israel-of-fukushima-sabotage/

I was in NYC last week, and went to the Guggenheim to gawk at the big Jenny Holzer exhibit. She likes words. I like words. Why not?

I think it was worthwhile, ultimately, but I'm sort of torn. I haven't read much about her or her work, so I don't know if there's any real consensus I'm restating or breaking with here, but here are some general thoughts:

A) Putting words everywhere kind of transforms text into texture (see, for instance, the image below with the multicolored paper on the walls), so that you wind up feeling like you're immersed in knowledge or poetry or something, but it's hard to take much of it in, and most of the words stop meaning anything at all. I assume she knows this -- she's been doing this for decades -- and that it's part of her objective. We're often surrounded by words and other symbols any time we leave the house, so in a way it's nice to be prodded to stop and actually read things that aren't just advertising and storefronts and traffic lights, but at the same time, do I really need to pay to go into a fancy museum to be bombarded like that? I could've just walked to Times Square and gotten it for free (this was the day before the CloudStrike thing, so bombardment was still in full effect there).

B) Because the main gallery in the Guggenheim is effectively one long (sloping) corridor, the whole thing becomes like a kind of buffet, where you can sort of leave this one alone and move along to the next one that grabs your attention. That does sort of mitigate some of the problems described above: it's not exactly one overwhelming wave of text, so much as lots of smaller, briefer encounters. So that's kind of nice.

C1) I'm not sure that I really love making giant artworks out of plans for torture or mass killing. When she makes massive pressed metal reproductions of, for instance, Bush administration memos discussing just what kinds of violence "enemy combatants" in Iraq are to be subjected to or a giant, gleaming map showing battle plans for invading Iraq (see below), I think her intentions are probably good. The world is such a giant shitshow right now, that we in the US have largely forgotten some of the worst devastation of our recent past. In recent months, I've seen liberal commentators kvetching, for instance, that "today's GOP is no longer the party of Bush" (!). So by all means, Jenny Holzer, please do remind us of what horror that era brought. Forgetting all that is really criminal.

C2) But she's also making these artifacts of state terror sort of pretty. It reminds me of when Banksy went to the West Bank to do art on the border wall, and an old Palestinian man told him his work was making the wall beautiful. Banksy thanked him, but the man said "We don't want it to be beautiful, we hate this wall. Go home."

C3) But it also reminds me of 'The Act of Killing,' which has gotta be the best documentary film I've ever seen and everyone should run out and see it today (though it's *really* hard to watch at times). It presents three men who credibly claim to have killed thousands of "Communists" with their own hands in Indonesia in the mid-1960s, and is shows them reenacting their methods as though they were characters in genre films -- film noir gangsters, I think there's a western scene, there's one very elaborate scene shot like a 1960s musical. The whole thing looks kind of "arty," but letting these killers be movie stars for a moment also frees them up to basically act out their own brutality as though they were someone else. The jarring disconnect between the glossy, Hollywood scenarios and the real world mass murder somehow makes it hard to just look at it and remain numb to it, in the way Western people usually do when we read news reports about mass killing in non-Western countries. So wonder if beautifying the bureaucratic part of the US state killing apparatus might have a similar effect on some people? Maybe it did on me, a little.

C4) Contrary to all of this, sometimes Holzer's presentation of awful text as art really does just highlight the bleakness of it. For one example, she reproduced a series tweets posted by Trump in 2017-18, and they're all printed on jagged, rusty-looking bits of metal. Some were on the wall, some were just piled on the floor, almost daring people to stomp on them. One in particular stood out for me personally. It reads: "Our great country has been divided for decades. Sometimes you need protest in order to heel [sic], & we will heel [sic], & be stronger than ever before!" That was dated August 19, 2017, about a week after Unite the Right. Sometimes it's okay to be reminded, even before we've entirely forgotten.

#JennyHolzer #Guggenheim #NewYorkCity #NYC #Art #WordArt #Trump #GeorgeWBush #War #Iraq #Banksy #TheActOfKilling

Kotaku: Mercy Player Wins Competitive Overwatch Match By Hiding In A Bush https://kotaku.com/competitive-overwatch-hiding-in-bush-mercy-main-reddit-1850168440 #gaming #tech #kotaku #sonsoftheamericanrevolution #presidencyoftheunitedstates #statesoftheunitedstates #transmediastorytelling #livingstonfamily #schuylerfamily #georgehwbush #georgewbush #bushfamily #overwatch #politics #fiction #gladowl #mercy #bush

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